Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable development, globalization and privatization, tourism, urban development, and financial markets...

Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.Do you...• Put the needs of others above your own?• Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?• Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing all your money, or getting seriously ill?• Find that no matter how successful you are, you still feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or undeserving?...

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: “I’m an American, and I never retreat.” The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the Harlem Rattlers, the African-American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard, who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken...

Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.Do you...• Put the needs of others above your own?• Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?• Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing all your money, or getting seriously ill?• Find that no matter how successful you are, you still feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or undeserving?...

The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section has four chapters that cover the substance of topics that impacted this campaign cycle: the popularity and productivity of the 113th Congress, voter suppression laws passed in many states, the role...

In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA we have today. He tells a story of amazing technological innovation in service of intelligence gathering, of bitter bureaucratic infighting, and sometimes, as in the case of its "mind-control" adventure, of stunning moral failure. B...

Set in suburban Philadelphia, Braydon Mitchell, Ph.D. is a thirty-something, married psychologist whose life has become a see-saw of struggles: personal and professional. Written in the first-person, Dr. Mitchell (Braydon) walks us through a fictionalized spectrum of psychiatric cases, including diagnoses, treatment plans and complications. The story's irony, however, is that while Braydon spends each day doctoring his patients, his own marriage is crumbling under the weight of unresolved ...

Why does theory matter? In a world saturated with opinions and misrepresentations, The Theory Toolbox shows students why theory is relevant and how it is anything but abstract.With accessible examples, open-ended working questions, and a clear progression from foundational concepts to everyday application, The Theory Toolbox reimagines theory as a dynamic set of perspectives and questions that can be put to work across every area of life.D...

The first in-depth examination of NEST: America's super-secret government agency operating to prevent nuclear terrorist attacks.Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST's personnel, operations, and detection and disablement equipment--employed in response to attempts at nuclear extortion, lost and st...

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn conceptFrom its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it wa...

In conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In Alterity Politics Jeffrey T. Nealon argues instead for a concrete and ethical understanding of community, one that requires response, action, and performance instead of passive resentment and unproductive mourning for a whole that cannot be attained.While discussing the work of others who have refuse...

"In this great, eternal work, mothers have carried the torch of faith and family from the beginning. The need for that torch to burn brightly and dispel darkness has never been greater," writes Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In this thoughtful book for mothers, Elder and Sister Holland reflect on the crucial role of motherhood in fulfilling the purposes of eternity, as well as the challenges that all mothers experience. Filled with hope and encouragement, th...